Chapter Resources
Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students’ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems.
Chapter 1 outlines the learning transfer mental model—a way of making sense of new topics and fields that help us grasp the overall structures of our world.
Chapter 2 directs attention to explicit shifts in practice that are necessary to truly harness the power and potential of learning that transfers.
Chapter 3 compels us to view individual subjects, as part of a larger discipline of study—or a way of making sense of our complex world.
Chapter 4 places a growing body of important competencies under one label, modern literacies, and uses them to empower learners.
Chapter 5 synthesizes the previous chapters into an overall vision for the course that you teach.
Chapter 6 outlines the critical steps for planning a transfer-focused course to empower students to use their learning.
Chapter 7 provides the building blocks of 21st century assessment design, presenting it as a system of feedback.
Chapter 8 brings everything together with tools for creating robust lesson plans designed to help students transfer learning.
